4318 - Hubert Sattler, Summer High-Mountain Landscape

Hubert Sattler, Summer High-Mountain Landscape View of a mountain stream with a narrow path; there, a pair of chamois and goats by the path; in the background, a view of a mountain panorama featuring the Jungfrau and the Mönch; oil on drawing board, second half of the 19th century, signed ‘Stahl-Rychen’ (the artist’s well-known pseudonym) and the place name ‘Thun’ in the lower left-hand corner, label on the reverse identifying the mountains, in need of restoration, frame in need of minor restoration, Inner dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm. Artist information: also used the pseudonyms Louis Ritschard, E. Grossen, G. Stähly-Rychen, J. Stauffer; Austrian landscape painter (1817 Vienna - 1904 Vienna), son of Johann Michael Sattler (creator of the Salzburg Panorama), from 1829 to 1839, Sattler travelled through Europe with his parents, presenting the panorama and various cosmoramas to the public; he later studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Schindler; in 1844, he travelled to the Orient; 1850-53: stayed in America; in 1870, he bequeathed his father’s panorama and 127 cosmoramas of his own creation to the city of Salzburg, which are now on display at the Panorama Museum; from 1897, an honorary citizen of Salzburg, Source: Thieme-Becker, Saur “Bio-Bibliographical Encyclopaedia of Artists”, Fuchs, Wikipedia and the internet.